running scp or rsync from a script

[Chris Purcell]

> If you don't want to do that, then you might look at Expect, which is
> another scripting language.  It allows you to program the password into
> the script file in a pseudo-interactive manner.  http://expect.nist.gov/

I know nothing about Expect, but I found a module on CPAN called
Net::SCP::Expect which is a wrapper for scp that allows passwords via
Expect.  It works great.

Thanks,
Chris